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daringfireball.net - 11/2/2008
Daring Fireball Linked List: Apple Retail Store 'Field Trip' Program
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Apple Retail Store ‘Field Trip’ Program I think it’s downright sickening that any school would consider a trip to a retail store as a legitimate field trip. Consumer advertising has no place in education. The fact that the U.S. public education system is in such a sorry state that this is even ...

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Cult of Mac:  Apple Store Field Trips Combine Marketing & Education

speirs.org - 11/2/2008
Fraser Speirs – Apple Retail Store Field Trip
— speirs.org — John Gruber recently condemned Apple’s new Retail Store Field Trip program in brief but strong terms: I think it’s downright sickening that any school would consider a trip to a retail store as a legitimate field trip. Consumer advertising has no ... (more) Fraser Speirs – Apple Retail Store Field Trip
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daringfireball.net - 10/31/2008
Daring Fireball Linked List: iPhone Version of Opera Rejected From App Store
— daringfireball.net — iPhone Version of Opera Rejected From App Store I’m getting tons of emails regarding this bit from Saul Hansell’s interview with Opera CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner: Mr. von Tetzchner said that Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera ... (more) Daring Fireball Linked List: iPhone Version of Opera ...

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Is the Apple Store Really the Right Place for a School Field Trip?
Apple Eclectic — ... Early last month, Apple unveiled it’s new ‘Field Trip’ programme, which puts the computing and presentation resources of its Apple Stores at the disposal of groups of visiting school kids. John Gruber was quick to jump in with some uncharacteristic round-about criticism of Apple: ...

Apple Store Field Trips Combine Marketing & Education
Cult of Mac — ... Image credit: Josh Helfferich Back in October, blogger John Gruber wrote off the Apple Retail Store Field Trip program for K-12 schools, calling the taint of education with consumer advertising “sickening” and “appalling.” Over the weekend, however, Fraser Spiers, a teacher in the UK, posted an account of the field trip his class took to an Apple Store across the pond that makes Gruber’s dismissal seem mean and wrong. According to Spiers’ account, “The teacher in charge ...

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